(The $9,000 Cat) Hickory Zonked on Meds
Hickory was born in 2002. We adopted him from the PAWS in Petcetera on Rupert Street in Vancouver. He was 2 months old. Like every cat we’ve adopted from a shelter he had an upper respiratory infection. It was pretty bad, so my husband and I went to have it treated, but the doctor said that he should first try to fight it off on his own.
He got quite ill after that and had a blood test and a feline HIV test, both negative. He got past his illness and grew up. At 5 months we had him neutered. At age 1 year, he got his first UTI. Several years later, he’s had over a dozen UTI’s, 3 major ones in the last year. The vet bills and the special food have cost $9000.
This last year, he was hospitalized three times. His fluids have been replaced several times, had xrays, ultrasounds, more blood work, he’s on morphine, antibiotics, antispasmotics, and will be put in an anti-anxiety drug as soon as he can pee on his own. He can’t.
As a last ditch effort, the doctor fitted him with an open-ended catheter and sent him home again free of charge because this last round of vet bills cost $3000. He is now drinking freely and urinating all over the place. It’s wonderful. But we’ll see at the end of the week when the catheter comes out whether he can do it on his own.
We have been force feeding him water daily with a syringe for years now because he won’t drink. The doctor now suspects that he has always had pain urinating and wouldn’t completely evacuate his bladder. During the fluid replacement process, they found that at the very back of his bladder he has an accumulation of blood and crystals. All of the recent urine tests came back negative for crystals because of this.
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